Formalism is music that people don’t understand at first hearing. - Sergei Prokofiev
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About Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891-04-27 N.S. or 1891-04-15 O.S. – 1953-03-05) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.
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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
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Sergej Sergeevič Prokofʹev
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Sergey Prokofiev
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Sergej Prokofjev
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Sergiusz Prokofiew
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Serge Prokofiev
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Serge Sergevitch Prokofieff
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Serge Prokofieff
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The time is past when music was written for a handful of aesthetes. Today vast crowds of people have come face to face with serious music and are waiting with eager impatience. Composers, take heed of this…But this does not mean that you must pander to this audience. Pandering always has an element of insincerity about it and nothing good ever came of that.
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify human life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future. Such is the immutable code of art as I see it.
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